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Courtesy UK Ministry of DefenceAs Musa Qal'ah begins to stabilise, local children are getting the chance of an education thanks to the British forces' Military Stabilisation Support Team (MSST) who have been helping refurbish schools in and around the town. Musa Qal'ah was not so long ago considered the most dangerous place in Helmand. But the school in Musa Qal'ah district centre, a building that two years ago lay derelict, is now full of children playing football and other playground games. The MSST have provided the support for local contractors to bring the schools in and around Musa Qal'ah...

National Geographic channel == countdown: 15 minutes. M-1 Tank [TV-PG] Saturday, February 24, 2007, at 02P The Abrams tank is one of the most powerful land weapons systems in the world. It is also rebuilt from the ground up, rather than built new. Ultimate Factories brings you to two factories responsible for the Herculean effort of overhauling the 70 tonAbrams, to the proving grounds of Fort Bliss, Texas where the reborn tanks flex their better-than-new muscles and to the dangerous battle zones of Iraq where the tank is seeing action daily.